MUMBAI: Johnny Depp‘s upcoming film The Rum Diary is set to be released on 28 October, it has been confirmed.

Depp, who previously portrayed Thompson‘s Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, plays a journalist Paul Kemp who heads to Puerto Rico in an attempt to find a calmer life, before getting entangled with an American woman (Heard) and her shady businessman fiancé (Eckhart).

The film, an adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel, stars Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard and Giovanni Ribisi along with Depp, will be released by FilmDistrict.

Announcing the release, FilmDistrict co-founder Graham King reportedly said, "Hunter S. Thompson became close with Johnny Depp during the filming of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and showed Depp the unpublished manuscript for The Rum Diary. I am extremely proud to bring this novel to film and to honour Hunter‘s legacy."